Chat App

What is Chat App?

Chat App is a simple chat application built to demonstrate the usage of MVC architecture in building CRUD applications and websocket for real-time communication.

Database

For MySQL database, specify the following value in the .env file with your own database details.

• database.default.hostname
• database.default.database
• database.default.username
• database.default.password
• database.default.DBDriver = MySQLi
• database.default.port

One of the way to setup local database is using XAMPP.

Installation

• Run composer install in the project directory.
• Run php spark migrate --all.

Running on Localhost

You may run the application locally by using the following command on the project directory:

php spark serve

It is also possible to host the application on XAMPP by placing the project folder inside the htdocs folder of XAMPP.

To allow real-time communication, a separate process handling websocket communication needs to be run. Run the following command inside the public folder of the project:

php index.php server